A fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster showing  three point test cross  st+-e+-ss+  was crossed with triplet recessive mutant st-e-ss. The F1 hybrid  was the backcross with the recessive mutant and the phenotype recorded as follows;

The distance in map unit (mu) between  st+  to  e+ and e+ to ss+ is

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

All of the following have been used by plants to avoid being eaten except

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#Question id: 12233

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Monarch butterflies are protected from birds and other predators but the cardiac glycosides they incorporate into their tissues are from eating milkweed when they were in their caterpillar stage of development. The wings of a different species of butterfly, the Viceroy, look nearly identical to the Monarch so predators that have learned not to eat the bad-tasting Monarch avoid Viceroys as well. This example best describes

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#Question id: 12232

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

White-breasted nuthatches and Downy woodpeckers both eat insects that hide in the furrows of bark in hardwood trees. The Downy woodpecker searches for insects by hunting from the bottom of the tree trunk to the top, while the White-breasted nuthatch searches from the top of the trunk down. These hunting behaviours best illustrate which of the following ecological concepts?

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#Question id: 12231

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following studies would a community ecologist undertake to learn about competitive interactions? 

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#Question id: 12229

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Community ecologists would consider which of the following to be most significant in understanding the structure of an ecological community?

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#Question id: 12228

#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

Which of the following examples best describes an ecological community?